Egypt

Wall Street Journal Headlines

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pressed Egypt’s leaders to move forward with political reform as part of a broader strategy to confront religious extremism and said elections slated for this fall are an important milestone for the Arab country.

Mokhtar Awad and Brian Katulis: The Egyptian government’s policies of repression are motivating a new generation of Islamists to turn to violence. The spectrum of the opposition's zero-sum politics on one end and regime repression on the other has hindered possibilities for national reconciliation.

Egypt is back in the spotlight ahead of index compiler MSCI's annual market classification announcement this week with investors concerned the index provider may be considering downgrading it to frontier status.

Militants in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula attacked two military checkpoints, killing at least five soldiers Saturday in the latest violence there targeting security forces, officials and state media said.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi traveled to the troubled Sinai Peninsula to inspect troops, after an Islamic State group that carried out a deadly assault earlier in the week said it had fired three rockets at Israel a day earlier.

Hacking Team, an Italian company that specializes in selling software allowing governments to hack into computers, has itself been hacked, and files appear to show it sold surveillance technology to dozens of countries, including Sudan, Egypt, Russia and the U.S.